Easy Christmas Cake Recipe

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Easy Christmas Cake Recipe

Ingredients

  • recipe for: Melokakaronia Me Smigdali Fenekia
  • Serving Size : 3

the cookies:

  • 1 cup oil
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup cognac
  • 1/4 cup orange juice
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 tablespoons grated orange rind
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 2 1/2 cups farina (cream of wheat)
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon

the syrup:

  • 3/4 cup water
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 cup honey

Method

  1. Beat the oil with the sugar for about 1/2 hour
  2. Add cognac
  3. Add baking soda dissolved in orange juice; add orange rind; mix well.
  4. Add flour and farina, and knead very well to blend all into a medium -soft dough
  5. Shape the dough into mounded ovals, flat on the bottom, scrape the top lightly with a fork to make shallow grooves.
  6. Place on a buttered cookie sheet and bake in preheated 250 F oven for 20 to 30 min Remove from the oven; cool
  7. While cookies are cooling, boil water, sugar, and honey together in a saucepan, removing the froth as it rises.
  8. Boil about 3 min Dip cold cookies into the warm syrup, using a slotted spoon.
  9. Remove carefully and drain.
  10. Place on a clean platter and sprinkle with the walnuts.
  11. Mix together the cinnamon and sugar, and sprinkle on top.

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